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NEW DELHI -- The sorry state of American men's tennis will continue for some time with no real talent on the horizon, said Pete Sampras who dominated the game in the 1990s with fellow American Andre Agassi.
No American has won a men's grand slam...

Who I am
Christy Childers from Chicago.
I liked
"High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green and "Christy" by Catherine Marshall.
This piece...

Defending Wimbledon champion Andy Murray showed another dominant display in overpowering Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut to move to the fourth round.
“It’s been a good first week, now I can rest up and be ready for Monday,” the third-seeded Briton said in...

Kick Off Back to School Season with Free Admission and Diaper Drive to Benefit Chicago Non-Profit, Share Our SpareTM!
CHICAGO (AUGUST 2013)—Kidville, named 'best of' by New York Magazine, is celebrating its Lincoln Park Grand Opening with a Back to...

Midtown Athletic Club in Chicago has partnered with Mercedes-Benz of Westmont to host the 2013 Mercedes-Benz Local Dealer Championships, a nationwide amateur-only tennis program for men and women 21 years and older. The proceeds from the tournament...

Offering children newborn to six a one-stop facility to learn, play and growRegistration open for Fall classes, birthday parties, pre-school alternative, camp and more! CHICAGO (JULY 2013)—Kidville, named 'best of' by New York Magazine, will open a...

Our club has been meeting for about 10 years. We started out with six neighbors and have expanded to 11 current members.
Our membership includes a lawyer, nurse, teacher, administrative assistant, freelance writer and small-business...

The Ridgewood Book Club has been meeting since 1968. The club is named for the subdivision in Western Springs where most of us still live.
Our book club reads a variety of fiction and nonfiction. One of our members asks annually to have...

The Bryan Street Book ClubThe club was started in 1977 by stay-at-home moms living in Elmhurst who wanted to have an evening of adult dialogue.Sometimes refreshments are themed with the book, i.e. margaritas were served with “A Pirate Looks at Fifty” by...

David Foster Wallace's posthumous career — Wallace committed suicide in 2008 at the age of 46 — has produced nearly as many books as his live one did. In 2010, David Lipsky came out with "Although of Course You End up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip...

If age is merely a state of mind, or nothing but a number, why was it so painful watching Peyton Manning fail Sunday to get his agile mind to overcome his aging body?
In two days, an entire Denver Broncos franchise has unraveled. Coach John Fox is gone...

Andre Agassi apparently has some jealousy issues.
At least the now-retired tennis star did back when he was dating Brooke Shields, the actress writes in her coming memoir "There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me."
So much...

Brooke Shields lost her virginity to Dean Cain at age 22 and is writing all about it.
Yes, before her husband Chris Henchy, before ex-husband Andre Agassi and before JFK Jr., Liam Neeson and George Michael there was a future Superman.
The former child...

Sunday was a day of rest and reflection at Wimbledon. So we reflected.
Eyes squinting, brow furrowed, chin resting in palm of hand, we pondered the issue: How good are our tennis players from the United States?
Lousy.
It was a short reflection.
Monday...

We trekked out to the U.S. Open's venerable Grandstand Court on Tuesday on a mission of promise.
Young Jack Sock, up-and-coming U.S. tennis player, was playing his first-round match.
The Grandstand is special. For years, it has been an appendage to...

NEW YORK -- Top-seeded Novak Djokovic is just going about his business here at the U.S. Open, winning matches without losing sets and being efficient with his points. He's wasting little energy, a smart thing in the New York heat and humidity.
Djokovic...

Let’s start with the obvious: the first two starts of Kevin Gausman’s Orioles career didn’t go quite as planned.
The 22-year-old right-hander, who had allowed just six earned runs in his final five starts at Double-A Bowie before the Orioles called him...

Previously on "The Amazing Race," there were 11 teams. Some of them were really awesome, and some were not. Phil Keoghan eliminated a lot of them, and now the lucky remaining few are in Spain. It all ends tonight, you know, so I hope you have...

This is for all those people who are seriously ill and thinking they may never do what they love again.I was like that in 2010, recovering from back-to-back breast cancer and heart surgeries and the aftermath. I thought tennis, which is my athletic...

Time once again for "The Amazing Race," or as I called it last week, The Dream Crushing, Boyfriend Eliminating Hour of Depression.
I've got something that will perk you up this week: Spain! Barcelona! Beaches! It's a magical place where even...